1. Introduction Music History 1600-1750: Some Basic Ideas Historical Background: Western Europe, 1600-1750 Music in European History, 1600-1750 The Place of Music and Musicians in Society Performance Practices 2. A Sixteenth-Century Prologue: Motet and Madrigal The Late Renaissance Motet: Palestrina and Lassus The Madrigal 3. Transitions Around 1600 Some General Developments The Basso Continuo Instruments Monody 4. Monteverdi and Early Baroque Musical Drama Claudio Monteverdi Monteverdi's Orfeo Later Works Venetian Opera 5. Secular Vocal Music of the Later Seventeenth Century Barbara Strozzi Alessandro Scarlatti and the Later Cantata The Dissemination of Baroque Style 6. Lully and French Musical Drama The French Style Lully's Armide 7. Seventeenth-Century Sacred Music Sacred Music in Venice: Giovanni Gabrieli Sacred Music in Germany: Heinrich Schütz Seventeenth-Century Oratorio Lalande and the Grand Motet 8.

Late Baroque Opera Handel Rameau 9. Late Baroque Sacred Music J. S. Bach Handel and the Eighteenth-Century Oratorio 10. Music for Solo Instruments I: Toccata and Suite The Lute and Its Repertory Keyboard Instruments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Baroque Keyboard Music in Italy Baroque Keyboard Music in France and Germany 11. Music for Solo Instruments II: Fugues and Pièces Later Baroque Keyboard Music J. S. Bach's Music for Solo Instruments Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Music in France Other Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Composers 12.

Music for Instrumental Ensemble I: The Sonata The Chief Ensemble Instruments of the Baroque Types of Baroque Music for Instrumental Ensemble The Baroque Sonata 13. Music for Instrumental Ensemble II: Sinfonia and Concerto The Bolognese Trumpet Sinfonia The Baroque Concerto 14. A Mid-Eighteenth-Century Epilogue: The Galant Style The Galant Style Bibliography Index.